List of early music ensembles

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An early music ensemble is a musical ensemble that specializes in performing early music of the European classical tradition from the Baroque era and earlier – broadly, music produced before about 1750. Most, but not all, of these groups are advocates of historically informed performance, and attempt to re-create the music as it might have sounded at the time it was written, using period instruments and modifying playing techniques according to the most recent scholarly research into music of the time.

Names in parentheses below indicate current directors, unless otherwise indicated.

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Australia[]

Austria[]

  • Ars Antiqua Austria
  • Clemencic Consort (René Clemencic): medieval to baroque
  • Concentus Musicus Wien (Nikolaus Harnoncourt), Vienna: baroque orchestra
  • Ensemble Eduard Melkus (Capella Academica Wien), Vienna: defunct
  • Fiori musicali, Vienna: baroque chamber group
  • Quadriga Consort: emphasis on early British traditional and popular music
  • Quatuor Mosaïques (founded in 1985 by members of Concentus Musicus Wien), Vienna

Belgium[]

  • Capilla Flamenca (Dirk Snellings): Renaissance choral
  • Les Agrémens
  • Collegium Vocale Gent (Philippe Herreweghe): Renaissance and baroque choir
  • Currende (Erik Van Nevel): Renaissance choir
  • Ensemble Clematis, Leonardo García-Alarcón: baroque
  • Huelgas Ensemble (Paul Van Nevel): Renaissance choir
  • Les Muffatti, Brussels: Baroque orchestra
  • La Petite Bande (Sigiswald Kuijken): baroque orchestra and chamber ensemble
  • Ricercar Consort: baroque cantatas
  • Vox Luminis: 16th- to 18th-century Italian, German, and English vocal music

Canada[]

  • Académie Baroque de Montréal (Suzie LeBlanc)
  • Ensemble Claude-Gervaise, Montréal:
  • Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal: mostly music of the Renaissance and early baroque
  • Tafelmusik, Toronto: baroque orchestra and chamber choir
  • Theatre of Early Music (Daniel Taylor), Toronto: chamber choir
  • Ensemble Caprice (Matthias Maute), Montréal
  • Opera Atelier, Toronto: baroque opera company
  • Victoria Baroque (Victoria, B.C.)

Colombia[]

  • Musica Ficta (Carlos Serrano): Latin American baroque

Czechoslovakia[]

Denmark[]

  • Ars Nova Copenhagen (Paul Hillier): Renaissance to contemporary
  • Concerto Copenhagen (Lars Ulrik Mortensen): baroque orchestra
  • Musica Ficta (Bo Holten): Renaissance and contemporary choral

Estonia[]

  • Hortus Musicus (Andres Mustonen): medieval and Renaissance and baroque and contemporary music
  • Rondellus: medieval and Renaissance and contemporary music

Finland[]

France[]

Germany[]

Greece[]

Iceland[]

Israel[]

  • Accademia Daniel: baroque chamber group
  • Profeti della Quinta, Israel/Switzerland: vocal ensemble

Italy[]

  • Academia Montis Regalis (Alessandro De Marchi): baroque orchestra
  • Accademia Bizantina (Ottavio Dantone): baroque orchestra
  • Accordone (Guido Morini): early baroque, often with Marco Beasley
  • Auser Musici: baroque orchestra
  • Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini (Antonio Florio): baroque orchestra
  • Il Complesso Barocco (Alan Curtis): baroque orchestra
  • Concerto Italiano (Rinaldo Alessandrini): madrigals and baroque orchestra
  • Delitiæ Musicæ: Renaissance and baroque vocal music
  • Ensemble Aurora (Enrico Gatti): baroque to classical
  • Ensemble Micrologus: medieval
  • Europa Galante (Fabio Biondi): baroque orchestra
  • I Febiarmonici (Alan Curtis): madrigals
  • Il Giardino Armonico (Giovanni Antonini), Milan: baroque orchestra
  • Modo Antiquo (Bettina Hoffmann and Federico Maria Sardelli): medieval music to baroque orchestra
  • La Reverdie: medieval
  • I Solisti Veneti (Claudio Scimone): baroque orchestra on modern instruments
  • La Venexiana (Claudio Cavina): madrigals
  • Venice Baroque Orchestra (Andrea Marcon)

Japan[]

Netherlands[]

Poland[]

  • Polish Baroque Orchestra (Krzysztof Czerwinski)

Portugal[]

  • Concerto Atlântico (Pedro Caldeira Cabral): medieval to baroque
  • Il Dolcimelo (Isabel Monteiro): Renaissance
  • Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música (Laurence Cummings): baroque orchestra
  • AVRES SERVA (Nuno Oliveira): early baroque to early classical

Russia[]

  • Insula Magica, Novosibirsk
  • The Pocket Symphony (Nazar Kozhukhar), Moscow, St.Petersburg
  • Pro Anima, Leningrad: 1980s, now disbanded
  • La Voce Strumentale (Dmitry Sinkovsky), Moscow: baroque ensemble
  • Pratum Integrum (Pavel Serbin), Moscow: baroque and classical orchestra

Serbia[]

  • Ensemble Renaissance, Belgrade: medieval and Renaissance
  • , Belgrade (1977): Medieval and Renaissance, also Baroque (vocal-instrumental ensemble, founder and director: Vera Zlokovich)
  • , Belgrade (1987): Medieval vocal music of the Orthodox spiritual tradition (ensemble founder and director: Vera Zlokovich)
  • New Trinity Baroque (Predrag Gosta), Belgrade

South Korea[]

Spain[]

Switzerland[]

  • Camerata Bern (Antje Weithaas): chamber orchestra
  • Ensemble Elyma (Gabriel Garrido): baroque orchestra
  • Ferrara Ensemble (Crawford Young), Basel: medieval and Renaissance
  • Gli Angeli Genève, Geneva: baroque ensemble
  • Students of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Rene Jacobs), based in Basel: medieval to baroque
  • La Fiamma: medieval and renaissance ensemble

United Kingdom[]

  • Academy of Ancient Music (Christopher Hogwood founder, currently Richard Egarr): baroque orchestra
  • Alamire (David Skinner): vocal consort
  • Avison Ensemble: baroque orchestra
  • Brandenburg Consort (Roy Goodman): baroque orchestra
  • Brecon Baroque (Rachel Podger): baroque orchestra
  • The Brook Street Band, Handel specialists
  • Cancionero, Kent
  • Cantilena (Adrian Shepherd): baroque on modern instruments
  • The Cardinall's Musick (Andrew Carwood): choir
  • City Waites (inc. Lucie Skeaping): medieval to baroque English music and folk
  • Collegium Musicum 90 (Simon Standage), English baroque orchestra
  • The Consort of Musicke (Anthony Rooley): Renaissance vocal, madrigals
  • Deller Consort (founded by Alfred Deller d.): Renaissance and baroque chamber
  • Dufay Collective: William Lyons, Artistic Director, medieval and renaissance instrumental and vocal
  • Dunedin Consort Director John Butt. Based in Scotland.
  • Early Music Consort of London (David Munrow d.): medieval, defunct
  • Early Opera Company: baroque opera
  • English Baroque Soloists (John Eliot Gardiner): baroque and classical-era music
  • The English Concert (Trevor Pinnock founder, then Andrew Manze, now Harry Bicket)
  • Ex Cathedra (Jeffrey Skidmore): choir and baroque orchestra
  • I Fagiolini: vocal consort, madrigals
  • Florilegium, London: baroque
  • Fretwork: viol consort
  • Gabrieli Consort & Players (Paul McCreesh): baroque choir and orchestra
  • Gothic Voices (Christopher Page): medieval and Renaissance music
  • The Hanover Band: period instrument orchestra
  • The Harp Consort (Andrew Lawrence-King): Renaissance consort
  • The Hilliard Ensemble (formerly directed by Paul Hillier): medieval, Renaissance and contemporary music
  • The King's Consort (Robert King): baroque orchestra; see also Retrospect Ensemble
  • King's Singers: vocal sextet
  • London Baroque (founded in 1978 by Ingrid Seifert and Charles Medlam): baroque chamber orchestra
  • Magpie Lane, Oxfordshire: folk band
  • Musica Reservata (John S. Beckett), London
  • New London Consort (Philip Pickett): medieval to baroque orchestra
  • Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: baroque orchestra
  • Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (John Eliot Gardiner): classical and romantic orchestra
  • Orlando Consort: vocal quartet
  • Oxford Camerata (Jeremy Summerly): Renaissance choral
  • Palladian Ensemble, British instrumental ensemble (co-founded by Rachel Podger)
  • The Parley of Instruments (Roy Goodman): baroque orchestra
  • Phantasm: viol consort
  • Philip Jones Brass Ensemble (Philip Jones): brass quintet
  • Polyphony (Stephen Layton): Renaissance, romantic and contemporary music
  • Pro Cantione Antiqua: Renaissance choral
  • Raglan Baroque Players (Nicholas Kraemer): baroque orchestra
  • Red Priest: baroque orchestra, specializing in Vivaldi
  • Retrospect Ensemble: baroque orchestra
  • Rose Consort of Viols
  • La Serenissima (Adrian Chandler): baroque orchestra, Vivaldi
  • The Sixteen (Harry Christophers): mostly a cappella music of the Renaissance, with baroque orchestra for Handel
  • Solistes de Musique Ancienne: baroque orchestra and choir
  • Sounds Baroque (Julian Perkins): period instrument ensemble
  • Tallis Scholars (Peter Phillips): a cappella Renaissance music
  • Taverner Consort and Players (Andrew Parrott): Renaissance choir and baroque orchestra
  • Theatre of Voices: vocal consort
  • Tonus Peregrinus (Antony Pitts): Renaissance and contemporary choir
  • Trinity Baroque, Trinity College, Cambridge: vocal ensemble
  • Voces8: vocal ensemble
  • Westminster Abbey Choir (Simon Preston)
  • Westminster Cathedral Choir (David Hill)

United States[]

Unspecified or international[]

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